Background
Charles Long was born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States.
320 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, United States
Philadelphia University of Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University
320 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, United States
Philadelphia University of Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University
Charles Long was born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States.
Charles Long studied at the Philadelphia College of Art where in 1981 he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The same year, the young artist joined the Independent Study Program of Whitney Museum in New York City.
Later he pursued his artistic training at the Yale University in New Haven where he gained his Master of Arts degree in 1988.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Charles Long has worked as a teacher of art in various universities and art schools, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, United States where he began teaching in 2005 and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, United States where joining it in 2006.
Currently, the artist is living in Mount Baldy, California, United States where he is working as Full Professor and Chair of the Art Department at the University of California, Riverside.
Despite the teaching activity, Charles Long has widely exhibited around the United States and all over the world including the Kunsthalle Lophem in Belgium (1995), the Galeria Carmargo Vilaça in São Paulo, Brazil, the Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris, France (1997), Whitney Biennial in New York City (1997, 2008), the James Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium (1999), Frieze Art Fair in London (2007), the Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010), the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), the Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013) and the Contemporary Austin Center in Texas (2014).
In New York City, the artist is represented by the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
Charles Long is an accomplished sculptor whose achievements in sculpture are recognized around the world.
Long is a recipient of many grants and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the couple of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
Charles Long modernist sculptures are represented in various well-known museums and art galleries of the world, like the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall in Sweden, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Quotations:
"Generally, when I look at people looking at my sculptures I just see more sculpture."
"There is a view of art as making objects as commentary on something or, by contrast, as an empty, cynical, capitalist gesture, when in fact I look at it as all the more reason for me to do my best, to make an occasion for experience."
